Duskrider Peregrine

Hard-cast for six, it is an overpriced evasive body with a narrow protection ability; routed through suspend for up front, it converts a slow early turn into a deferred threat that arrives swinging the moment the last time counter falls. The trade is what makes the design pay off: spend two mana on a turn you can spare it, and three upkeeps later the Bird lands as a hasty 3/3 flier, protected from black, having skipped the dead-card middle most six-drops impose. Protection from black earns its keep in two distinct ways once the body is attacking: it dodges the targeted kill spells black leans on, and, because protection includes "can't be blocked by," it walks past black blockers entirely, turning a contested ground stall into free damage. (It does nothing against edicts, which target the player, not the creature, so a deck built to sacrifice your stuff away still can.) The tension this design resolves is the one suspend was built to address: a creature unimpressive at its real cost becomes a planning tool when you commit early and wait, trading immediacy for tempo and a discount. Haste closes the loop, ensuring the deferred threat does not idle on the turn it resolves the way a freshly cast creature does. The payoff is a delayed flier black cannot touch; the cost is the patience to set it ticking before the board demands your attention.